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Guest Blog: Appamondo - Starting up a business in the cloud.

Posted by Michael Smith on Mar 13, 2014 5:00:00 PM
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Starting-up or running a business in the cloud at Carrwood Business Park provides you with options to collaborate, communicate and grow which will help you to compete for business on a UK-wide basis.

As a technology service provider, Appamondo help choose the right applications to set your business up in the cloud. We take responsibility for deployment, training and education, and then providing ongoing support to you and your team. In this way, you can combine a bricks and mortar presence with remote tools that mean you are ‘always on’.
 
We always get asked why people should change to the cloud.

Here are five tips and reasons to work this way;

1. Avoid capital expenditure on computers, servers, software licenses and installation or maintenance costs.

  • Build a business with low-cost, subscription-based applications for business

  • Operate ‘Bring Your Own Device’

  • Avoid buying devices and hardware you really don’t need (servers, desktop PCs etc)

2. Collaborate & communicate wherever you are.

  • Use business software that can be accessed remotely such as Google Apps for Business™ for email, calendar, office package and storage

  • Use online storage and collaboration tools to interact regularly and remotely with colleagues and customers

  • Use video calling to increase frequency of face to face time & reduce cost of travel (£ & time)

3. Automate administrative processes.

  • Automation means less time on admin, more time to grow the business!

  • Use applications which integrate with one another and streamline processes

  • Mission critical task like accounting can be automated using Xero thus improving cashflow

4. Go paperless.

  • Cut your costs and wastage by going paperless

  • Online storage tools allow creation, storage, sharing and collaboration in the cloud, removing the need for multiple copies, and paper revisions.

  • Make sure applications match your business needs - there is a paperless solution for most processes.

5. Buy your technology as a service - lowest cost to operate

  • Technology can be purchased on a subscription basis without capital costs. Beware! Support from setup through to ongoing support is relatively non-existent (important if you are migrating data!)

  • Look for a technology provider who can meet all your business requirements - deployment (including migration of existing data), education in the form of training and ongoing support on a per user (not company basis) should be mandatories for you!

Don’t just stop at these tips if you want to ask more questions contact the Appamondo team on 0843 224 9088 or social@appamondo.com we are happy to help!

Michael Smith

Appamondo

 

Carrwood Park runs a professional office space who work around your business. We produce the highest quality space with complete monthly flexible so that you can have fluid workflow with minimal hassle. We are happy to work with Appomondo. They have a great service that will benefit a wide range of companies looking for easier management tools. Come and hear them on March 20th.

    

 

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